Middle and long distance athletics races
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Juan M. García-Manso; Juan M. Martín-González; Nancy Dávila; Enrique Arriaza
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Article
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2005
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Middle and long distance athletics races behave as power-laws when time (or average speed) and distance are related, thus suggesting the presence of critical phenomena. Power-laws as a function of the athlete's position in the all-time world ranking allows us to define a Performance Index that revea